how to ship goodies to your military friends

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38 Pinches
Apple Valley, CA
Updated on Apr 22, 2012

When my 18 year old son was in the Navy overseas, he missed Mama's cookies, so I baked him 15 dozen cookies so he could also share with his friends. I packed each dozen in a ziplock bag. Thinking what a waste it would be to pay for all that bubble wrap, I came up with a better idea!!

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yield as many as you make

Ingredients

  • - chocolate chip cookies
  • - sugar cookies
  • - snickerdoodles
  • - choclate fudge
  • - popcorn, popped
  • - pretty much anything you want

How To Make how to ship goodies to your military friends

  • Step 1
    I then got a large cardboard box and a large 33 gallon trash bag. I placed the open bag inside the box and started popping corn!! I would put in several pans of popcorn. then a couple dozen cookies,then popcorn, then cookies.
  • Step 2
    The coolest part was when he called me from Italy on shore leave and said "Mom! The package was terrific and my friends loved it too!"
  • Step 3
    This way. they had cookies AND popcorn rather then a bunch of bubble wrap to discard!!

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